There are two Rick Santorums : The first one I might not agree with , but the second one truly scares me .

`` Santorum One '' pushes for less government regulation for corporations and shrinking the federal government . You may or may not agree with these positions , but they are both mainstream conservative fare .

Then there 's `` Santorum Two . '' This Santorum wants to impose conservative Christian law upon America . Am I being hyperbolic or overly dramatic with this statement ? I wish I were , but I 'm not .

Plainly put , Rick Santorum wants to convert our current legal system into one that requires our laws to be in agreement with religious law , not unlike what the Taliban want to do in Afghanistan .

Santorum is not hiding this . The only reason you may not be aware of it is because up until his recent surge in the polls , the media were ignoring him . However , `` Santorum Two '' was out there telling anyone who would listen .

He told a crowd at a November campaign stop in Iowa in no uncertain terms , `` our civil laws have to comport with a higher law : God 's law . ''

On Thanksgiving Day at an Iowa candidates ' forum , he reiterated : `` We have civil laws , but our civil laws have to comport with the higher law . ''

Yes , that means exactly what you think it does : Santorum believes that each and every one of our government 's laws must match God 's law , warning that `` as long as there is a discordance between the two , there will be agitation . '' I 'm not exactly sure what `` agitation '' means in this context , but I think it 's a code word for something much worse than acid reflux .

And as an aside , when Santorum says `` God , '' he means `` not any god -LRB- but -RRB- the God of Abraham , Isaac and Jacob . '' So , if your god differs from Rick 's , your god 's views will be ignored , just like the father is on `` Keeping Up with the Kardashians . ''

Some of you might be asking : How far will `` Santorum Two '' take this ? It 's not like he 's going to base public policy decisions on Bible passages , right ?

Well , here 's what Santorum had to say just last week when asked about his opposition to gay marriage : `` We have Judeo-Christian values that are based on biblical truth . ... And those truths do n't change just because people 's attitudes may change . ''

Santorum could not be more unambiguous : His policy decisions will be based on `` biblical truths , '' and as he noted , these `` truths '' will not change regardless of whether public opinion has evolved since the time the Bible was written thousands of years ago .

Imagine if either of the two Muslim members of Congress declared their support for a proposed American law based on verses from the Quran . The outcry would be deafening , especially from people like Santorum .

One of the great ironies is that Santorum has been a leader in sounding alarm bells that Muslims want to impose Islamic law -- called Sharia law -- upon non-Muslims in America . While Santorum fails to offer even a scintilla of credible evidence to support this claim , he continually warns about the `` creeping '' influence of Muslim law .

Santorum 's fundamental problem with Sharia law is that it 's `` not just a religious code . It is also a governmental code . It happens to be both religious in nature and origin , but it is a civil code . ''

Consequently , under the Sharia system , the civil laws of the land must comport with God 's law . Now , where did I hear about someone wanting to impose only laws that agree with God 's law in America ?

So , what type of nation might the United States be under Rick Santorum 's Sharia law ?

1 . Rape victims would be forced to give birth to the rapist 's child . Santorum has stated that his religious beliefs dictate that life begins at conception , and as a result , rape victims would be sentenced to carrying the child of the rapist for nine months .

2 . Gay marriages would be annulled . Santorum recently declared that not only does he oppose gay marriages , but he supports a federal constitutional amendment that would ban them , invalidating all previous gay marriages that have legally been sanctioned by states and thus callously destroying marriages and thrusting families into chaos .

3 . Santorum would ban all federal funding for birth control and would not oppose any state that wanted to pass laws making birth control illegal .

4 . No porn ! I 'm not kidding . Santorum signed `` The Marriage Vow '' pledge -LRB- PDF -RRB- authored by the Family Leader organization , under which he swears to oppose pornography . I think many would agree that alone should disqualify him from being president .

To me , `` Santorum Two '' truly poses an existential threat to the separation of church and state , one of the bedrock principles of our nation since its inception . Not only did Thomas Jefferson speak of the need to create `` a wall of separation between church and state , '' so did Santorum 's idol , Ronald Reagan , who succinctly stated , `` church and state are , and must remain , separate . ''

While there may be millions of Americans who in their heart agree with the views of `` Santorum Two , '' it is my hope they will reject any attempts to move America closer to a becoming the Afghanistan of the Western Hemisphere .

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Dean Obeidallah : Santorum would like to impose Christian law on U.S.

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He says Santorum has repeatedly said he thinks civil law should reflect Christian law

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He says candidate would annul gay marriages , compel rape victims to give birth

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Obeidallah : How does this differ from Sharia law Santorum warns about , denounces ?